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Poongsan – The female protagonist of this 2011 film, In-Ok (played by Kim Gyu-ri) is a beautiful North Korean defector from Pyongyang, North Korea who is brought to South Korea to be close to her lover, a high-ranking North Korean official (played by Kim Jong-soo) who also defected to South Korea, but she ends up falling in love with the ...
[1] [2] [3] The pair attempted to defect to South Korea after arriving in the south on November 2, 2019. [4] This was the first deportation of North Koreans by the South Korean Government since the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement. [5] [6]
The South Korean military said last week that North Korea is preparing to send additional troops to Russia after about 300 of its soldiers were killed and 2,700 others were injured. The high ...
As the direct journey to South Korea was so difficult, China found itself receiving a large number of North Korean defectors. If able to cross, defectors were able to find employment in Northeast China. When the North Korean Famine reached its peak in 1988–1989, almost 200,000 defectors were found in China.
The number of North Korean defectors entering the South last year was 196, triple the number of the previous two years, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry. In 2019, the figure ...
The number of North Korean defectors entering South Korea nearly tripled in 2023 compared to the previous two years, authorities said Thursday – including a higher number of youth and members of ...
In 2014, a North Korean agent posing as a defector was caught by South Korean security services. Her task was to lure Choi Jung-hoon to China to be assassinated. His younger brother has been executed for anti-regime activities in November 2000. [4] North Korea has repeatedly threatened defectors and activists involved in the balloon releases. [4]
Up to 600 North Koreans have "vanished" after being forcibly deported by China in October, a Seoul-based human rights group said on Thursday, warning they may face imprisonment, torture, sexual ...